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Brake – Road Safety Awareness Training

Name Brake – Road Safety Awareness Training
Location / Area Bradford District
Opportunity Details

In 2006 there were 2,700 road casualties in Bradford District, with 252 people killed or seriously injured. By sending your health and safety officer or HR staff on a free training course with Brake you can acquire the skills, knowledge and resources to deliver road safety training to your staff and potentially to the wider community.

Brake, the road safety charity, and express delivery company FedEx run FREE training around the country, which equips candidates with the skills, knowledge and resources needed to deliver awareness-raising road safety presentations on the following issues:

  • Young driver safety - aimed at community leaders and volunteers, on teaching key driver safety messages to young people in schools, colleges and youth offenders institutions;
  • Company driver safety - aimed at health and safety officers and company representatives, on delivering awareness-raising road safety education to company drivers;
  • Family road safety - aimed at community leaders, HR professionals and other professionals who work with parents, on teaching family road safety to parents, including using child restraints;
  • Get road safety in the news - aimed at road safety professionals and community leaders, on working with the media to promote road safety messages and local initiatives;

Courses run around the country. Training is free and candidates who undertake the training must commit to delivering at least four presentations within the first 12 months of being trained.
Please visit the Brake website www.brake.org.uk and click on the blue heart on the home page or click here http://www.brake.org.uk/index.php?p=71 for more information on each module.

Organisation Details

Brake is a national road safety charity (registration number 1093244) with two aims:

  • To prevent death and injury on the roads through education of all road users and campaigning for Government improvements to road safety.
  • To care for people who are bereaved or affected by serious injury in a road crash through support services, including a helpline and literature distributed through police officers.
Reference Number BIS3
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